ABSTRACT

In the previous two chapters, both lodged within a feminist, emancipatory trajectory, we focused generically on Science and Society, and specifically on communities of practice, as a means of navigating, thereby systematizing, relational enterprise. In the latter case, then, community-building and value-sharing, has evolved into such newly conceptualized communities of practice. We now turn from relational enterprise to a newly conceptualized form of economics, again from such a relational, feminist perspective. American macro-historian Riane Eisler (1), has termed such The Real Wealth of Nations . In fact we have called her macro-relational orientation that of a Participatory Economy. As such we build, emancipatory-wise, on prior Self-Sufficiency (Origination) and Substantive Economy (Foundation) whereby the story we economically are, now, is one built explicitly on relations with both nature and also fellow humanity. The explicit relationship, moreover, between the emancipatory social scientific method, of feminism, and the social science content, combining macro-history, anthropology, sociology, and economics, as well as ecology drawing on the life sciences, altogether reflects such co-creation.